Scholarships at Malardalen University, Sweden

One Year Post Doctoral Research Fellowships The Swedish National Strategic Research Centre on Embedded Software PROGRESS Mälardalen University is an expansive university with a strong focus on engineering, and the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering is a research intensive environment with strong focus on Embedded systems, Real-time systems and Software Engineering. PROGRESS The Swedish national strategic research centre on embedded software PROGRESS, hosted by Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden, is offering excellent career opportunities for top-talents by providing 8 one year post doctoral research fellowships with possible extension to two years Earliest starting date: September 1st 2009 Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2009 (cut-off date; submissions received after that date are welcome and will be considered as long as there are fellowships available) Required qualifications: PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering (or equivalent) and proven research excellence in at least one of the areas listed below. Application Submit your application electronically at www.mrtc.mdh.se/progress/postdoc09/ Research areas Prospective candidates should have a proven track record related to one of the following research directions: - Component Model This research direction has the main responsibility for developing ProCom, the component model to which all PROGRESS activities are linked. - Formal Modelling and Analysis This research direction works in the area of formal models, analysis techniques, and tools for verification of embedded systems. - Timing Analysis This research direction deals with code-level timing analysis techniques for components and component-based systems, mainly Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) analysis. - Dependability This research direction focuses on techniques for analyzing and ensuring dependability of component based real-time systems. - Deployment This research direction provides mappings and translations from the software design to executing code on particular target platforms. - Development Environment and Process This research direction provides a tool infrastructure with a set of basic tools and support for integration of other tools (provided by PROGRESS or externally), as well as guidelines for component-based development processes, and techniques for integrating such development in existing processes. - Componentization of Legacy This research direction provides methods and techniques that assist in integrating legacy code in the component-based development, as well as providing faithful execution of legacy code in a component-based setting. - Legacy Property Prediction This research direction focuses on existing industrial "legacy" systems, with the purpose of providing timing and resource usage information necessary for componentization of legacy code. For more information Professor Hans A Hansson, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University e-mail: hans.hansson@..., phone: +46-21-10 31 63 Links: About these positions: http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/progress/index.php?choice=postdoc09 Mälardalen University: www.mdh.se